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Welcome, This is the first open source multi-lingual user submitted dictionary and thesaurus (wow)!! We let you look up and add words, slang, and phrases in multiple languages. if you want to contribute to the source code please go to:

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But why...?

Sure there are a ton of dictionaries online, but how many of them have the freshest definitions that provide you with the words and phrases people from all over the world are actually using? Other user-submitted dictionaries exist, i recommend wiktionary, but I also strive to go above and beyond their limited capabilities, and user-interfaces. If anything no one website or organization should have a strangle hold on language resources, so use everything that there is out there. This is a tool for people to write their own history, and connect with one another.

But how...?

This site was written using Ruby on Rails which is a web programming framework. It allows the things you type in boxes to be sent to a server and saved to a database. Tis' quite awesome.

But who...?

Richard Schneeman has absolutely no web programming background and was able to learn enough to make most of this application from scratch in a little under a year, this also includes losing all of his code when his computer was stolen for the second time. He is A Mechanical Engineer that graduated from Georgia Tech May 2008. He loves wakeboarding, snowboarding, caving, climbing, and doing crazy stuff. He currently works for National Instruments (they make data acquisition software and hardware, not calculators) and lives in Austin, Tx.